SBH BLOG Mane Help Monday

Hair emergency? SBH has your back! Check out our coif question of the week. In every issue, SBH Hair Advice columnist Jacqueline Tarrant answers your questions and helps solve some of your biggest hair concerns. Have a question you need answered? Post it in the comment section below or in the “Ask A Stylist” section of our website.

A.First, you’ll need to determine whether your hair is breaking or shedding. Hair strands that are shed will be the full length of the strand and will have a small white bulb attached at the root. Breakage may be in short pieces. A broken strand is an external result of a weakened strand. If you are getting more than the usual amount of daily shedding, between 50 and 100 strands, this is internal and should be expressed to your physician. If it is breakage, I suggest sharing this with your stylist so the appropriate conditioning treatments can be applied.

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